On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:11 PM, brian m. carlson <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:12AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: >> >> > On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit >> > to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it >> > "parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man >> > page generator tries to point at.) >> >> Is "initial" harder to understand than "root" or "parent-less"? > > I personally think that "Initial commit" is very straightforward. If we > get more inquiries about it, we could consider changing it, but seeing > as this is the first question I've ever seen about it, I think most > people understand it pretty well.
For what it's worth, I've never quite understood the "Initial commit" message, because the repository is in a state where there are no commits yet, not when HEAD is pointing to a root commit.
